Pietro Rovelli

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Pietro Rovelli (born February 6, 1793 in Parma , † September 8, 1838 in Bergamo ) was an Italian violinist and composer .

Life

Pietro Rovelli was a student of his father Alessandro Rovelli, who was temporarily Kapellmeister at the court of Weimar. After his first concert successes in northern Italy, Rovelli continued his studies at the age of thirteen with Rodolphe Kreutzer in Paris. From 1815 to 1818 Rovelli was concertmaster of the royal court orchestra in Munich. Concert tours took him to Vienna, where he met the pianist Micheline Förster, the daughter of Beethoven mentor Emanuel Aloys Förster, and later married. Bernhard Molique and Thomas T Tagesbeck (1799–1867) were his students during his time in Munich .

In 1819 he took over the direction of an orchestra in his hometown of Bergamo and the position of Kapellmeister at S. Maria Maggiore, an office that his grandfather Giovanni Battista Rovelli had already exercised. He also taught at the music school " Pio instituto musicale " which was founded by Johann Simon Mayr . Sick and weak, Rovelli withdrew from all offices in 1832. Rovelli owned a violin ascribed to Guarneri del Gesù , in which Niccolò Paganini had expressed his interest in buying after Rovelli's death.

Works (selection)

  • 6 caprices for solo violin op.3 (Vienna, 1820)
  • 6 Caprices for solo violin op.5 (Leipzig, 1822)
  • Violin concerts
  • several string quartets
  • several variations and potpourris for violin and piano

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lexicon article by the Sophie Drinker Institute
  2. ↑ Rovelli's curriculum vitae on the Parma municipal library website ( Memento of the original from November 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / biblioteche2.comune.parma.it
  3. ↑ Friedrich Frick: Small biographical lexicon of violinists: from the beginning of violin playing to the beginning of the 20th century
personal data
SURNAME Rovelli, Pietro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian violinist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Parma
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1838
Place of death Bergamo